Science / Environment / Energy

This Market Business News category includes all of our articles that are related to science or the environment. This includes research projects in science and events that have an impact on the environment (be it beneficial or detrimental). This page is where you will find information on what is happening in the renewable energy industry, news to do with the electric or hybrid vehicle market, and information about electricity consumption, etc.

Google robot BigDog and also Spot shelved by US military

Google robot BigDog too noisy and Spot no good either says US military

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The Google-owned Boston Dynamics' robot called BigDog, that the US military had intended to deploy, is too noisy. The smaller version - Spot -...
Comet Catalina visible in northern hemisphere in January

Comet Catalina giving you last chance to see it

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Comet Catalina, known technically as nC/2013 US10, will be visible for just a few days in the Northern Hemisphere as it passes Earth by,...
Mobile phone fossil

800 year old mobile phone has everybody talking about aliens

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If you came across an 800 year old mobile phone fossil you might wonder whether intelligent aliens visited us in the past, or somebody...
Fossils galore at Charmouth as people hunt for ammonites

Fossils galore at Charmouth on Jurassic Coast after cliff fall

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It’s fossils galore at Charmouth, a West Dorset village on the Jurassic Coast, after a major cliff fall, which keen collectors know means the...
Where the genes of Irish people come from

Irish come from all over the place ancient genomes show

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The Irish people come from all over the place, as far afield as the Middle East, Southern Europe and Eurasia, according to the ancient...
Deadly extreme weather event seen by NASA satellite

Deadly extreme weather event over USA viewed by NASA satellite

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A deadly extreme weather event over the USA was viewed and analyzed by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite. The extreme weather...
Claudio Semini creator of the four legged robot

Amazing four legged robot for rescue operations and industry

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Scientists in Italy have developed a four legged robot for rescue operations and uses in industry that you cannot knock down – not for...
Russian Space Programme Roscosmos

Russian space programme to get less funding as economy falters

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The Russian space programme is in for some serious funding cuts as the national economy falters as a result of crashing crude oil prices,...
Giant Sea spider several inches wide

Giant sea spiders in Arctic Ocean puzzle scientists

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Giant sea spiders, as well some other oversized creatures found in the seas around the North and South poles have long puzzled scientists, who have...
Aequorea village under water off Rio in Brazil

Underwater village Aequorea with skyscrapers designed by Belgian architect

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Belgian architect, Vincent Callebaut, has designed an underwater village called Aequorea with skyscrapers, which he describes as a self-sufficient non-polluting eco-village where almost everything is located below...